Fine-grain optical TDMA channel selection using an electroabsorption modulator and impulse generator

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 146-148

  Gunning, P ^a   Lucek, J K ^a   Moodie, D G ^a   Smith, K ^a   Pitcher, D ^a   Siddiqui, A S ^b  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption modulators; Optical communication; Time division multiple access

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER LASERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; IMPULSE GENERATORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0030826025     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970107     Document Type: Article

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